{"id":3756,"date":"2022-08-17T19:28:38","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T18:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/?page_id=3756"},"modified":"2022-08-17T19:28:38","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T18:28:38","slug":"yuval-harari","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/?page_id=3756","title":{"rendered":"Yuval Harari"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Yuval Noah Harari<\/strong>\u00a0( born 1976) is an Israeli\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Public_intellectual\">public intellectual<\/a>, historian, and professor in the Department of History at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hebrew_University_of_Jerusalem\">Hebrew University of Jerusalem<\/a>.\u00a0He is the author of the popular science bestsellers\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sapiens:_A_Brief_History_of_Humankind\">Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(2014),\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Homo_Deus:_A_Brief_History_of_Tomorrow\">Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(2016), and\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/21_Lessons_for_the_21st_Century\">21 Lessons for the 21st Century<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(2018). His writings examine\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Free_will\">free will<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Consciousness\">consciousness<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Intelligence\">intelligence<\/a>, happiness, and suffering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Harari writes about the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Behavioral_modernity\">cognitive revolution<\/a>&#8221; occurring roughly 70,000 years ago when\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Homo_sapiens\">Homo sapiens<\/a><\/em>\u00a0supplanted the rival\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neanderthals\">Neanderthals<\/a>\u00a0and other species of the genus\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Homo\">Homo<\/a><\/em>, developed language skills and structured societies, and ascended as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Apex_predator\">apex predators<\/a>, aided by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/First_Agricultural_Revolution\">agricultural revolution<\/a>\u00a0and accelerated by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scientific_revolution\">scientific revolution<\/a>, which have allowed humans to approach near mastery over their environment. His books also examine the possible consequences of a futuristic\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Biotechnological\">biotechnological<\/a>\u00a0world in which intelligent biological organisms are surpassed by their own creations; he has said, &#8220;<em>Homo sapiens<\/em>\u00a0as we know them will disappear in a century or so&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In&nbsp;<em>Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind<\/em>, Harari surveys human history from the evolutionary emergence of Homo Sapiens to 21st Century political and technological revolutions. The book is based on his lectures to an undergraduate world history class.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-pdfemb-pdf-embedder-viewer\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Sapiens-A-Brief-History-of-Humankind.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\" data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">Sapiens-A-Brief-History-of-Humankind<\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-pdfemb-pdf-embedder-viewer\"><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-pdfemb-pdf-embedder-viewer\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/21-Lessons-for-the-21st-Century.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\" data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">21-Lessons-for-the-21st-Century<\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-pdfemb-pdf-embedder-viewer\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yuval Noah Harari\u00a0( born 1976) is an Israeli\u00a0public intellectual, historian, and professor in the Department of History at the\u00a0Hebrew University of Jerusalem.\u00a0He is the author of the popular science bestsellers\u00a0Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind\u00a0(2014),\u00a0Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow\u00a0(2016), and\u00a021 Lessons for the 21st Century\u00a0(2018). His writings examine\u00a0free will,\u00a0consciousness,\u00a0intelligence, happiness, and suffering. 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